I’m a 37 year old male that has been having somewhat sharp/throbbing pain in my chest for two weeks now. It started on New Year’s Eve. It’s been pretty off and on but has been bugging me a lot today. I am fairly inactive and sedentary. I don’t do much exercising and I have a desk job. I’m overweight with my height being 5’7 and my weight at 230. I went to the emergency room about a week ago for this pain. I was given an ECG, a chest x day and blood tests. My heart rate is always high and was around....

Hello, I'm a 34 year old male, 226 pounds, 5'7". I'm diabetic and keep that managed pretty well, my last A1C was 7.2. I am not active because of a back injury and on medications for depression and anxiety/panic attacks. For the last few months my pulse has seemed higher than it should be but not extremely dangerous. The last few mornings my resting heart rate has been between 100 and 120 and my lowest average monthly heart rate since August has been 92 and I use Samsung health on....

Hello, There are lots of posts about EECP and disodium EDTA chillation treatment for heart on internet. But whenever any patient discuss about these treatments to any doctor, then doctor strongly oppose by say that these are useless only bypass is the proved option. Is there no other alternative to angioplasty and bypass for a heart patient with one stent in LAD and EF=60%(after stent placement). Please suggest

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